The book that started it all!
A comprehensive guide to jazz/blues comping styles. This 92-page
book/CD package (with 30 tracks) covers straight-four playing
in the style of Freddie Green and others, swing riff comping,
bebop linear comping, and walking bass lines with chords. In tablature
and standard notation. Named one of "100 Great Guitar Books"
by Acoustic Guitar Magazine. 92
pages, 30-track CD.

"Essential
for all of my students!" —Howard Morgen, guitarist and instructor

The most complete guide to jazz/blues soloing ever written, All
Blues Soloing details the sounds, elements, and approaches
that make the blues such an integral part of the jazz vocabulary.
Moving from blues progressions to fingerboard organization to
phrasing, this 96-page volume covers essential blues scales, riffs,
licks, lick development, and an array of advanced concepts and
devices, including substitute scales and extended super arpeggios.
In the process, it features 38 complete solos, more than 100 music
examples, and hundreds of licks. With both standard notation and
tablature, the book also comes with a 32-track CD that lets you
hear the music, as well as see it. All Blues Soloing
follows in the footsteps of Ferguson's critically acclaimed All
Blues for Jazz Guitar—Comping Styles, Chords & Grooves.
96 pages, 32-track CD.

"Learn these smoky lines, and you'll amaze your bandmates
the next time they launch into a shuffle." —Guitar
Player Magazine

The only book to exclusively focus on the blues scale as it applies
to jazz guitar, All Blues Scale for Jazz Guitar—Solos,
Grooves & Patterns features a wealth of information,
including many scale patterns, six complete solos with dozens
of licks, and diverse accompanying grooves that use a wide array
of chords, tempos, and rhythmic feels. Inspired by the work of
legendary players such as Kenny Burrell, Grant Green, Wes Montgomery,
and George Benson. 32 jam-packed pages; includes standard notation,
tablature, and a 30-track CD that lets you hear the examples as
well as see them.

"No other book stands alone and covers the blues scale
as well." —Dr. Frank Forte, Just Jazz Guitar
Magazine

A powerful method for learning scales, the fretboard, and improving
your improvisational fluency while learning cool licks and hip
vamp grooves, this innovative book's five solos and grooves are
designed to be position study etudes that cover each of the five
basic scale fingerings in the context of either a swing, ballad
or Latin feel. Each solo emphasizes rhythm and phrasing, and is
grounded in a single key center and limited to a single fingering,
enabling you to fully explore and familiarize yourself with the
fingerboard without the added complications of changing key centers
and fingerings. Also covers minor scales and modes and patterns.
40 jam-packed pages with a 26-track CD.

All
Intros & Endings for
Jazz Guitar: Bebop,
Swing, Latin,
Ballads

Cedar
& Silver:
Music for Solo Guitar

Shapes,
Patterns & Lines
for Jazz Guitar

Moonstone:
Music for Solo Guitar

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Dozens of hip intros and endings that you can not only use on
the gig tonight, but also use as a starting point for developing
your own ideas. Includes chord progressions, voice-led ending
chords, vamps (bebop, swing, Latin, ballads), extended ideas,
classic intros, many concepts, and more. 40 jam-packed pages (tab
as well as standard notation), with a 40-track CD.

"Jim Ferguson continues with a terrific book of all intros
and endings. If you've ever had trouble coming up with interesting
intros or endings, this will surely help. Highly recommended."
—Just Jazz Guitar Magazine

Jim's first solo CD includes 11 original compositions plus two
arrangements/medleys for fingerstyle guitar that meld world, classical,
jazz, and blues elements. Highlights include the title track,
"Asian Pavan," "Brothers," "Horace," "Aurora," "Nisene,"
and "Blanca." "Medley for Kirk" includes the love theme
from Spartacus plus the theme from The Vikings.
"Gospel Medley" includes jazzy treatments of "Amazing
Grace," "Battle Hymn of the Republic," and "Swing
Low, Sweet Chariot." Sheet music available (for
sheet music not listed on this page, please Contact
Us).

"All the pieces are unique and distinctive....Throughout
[Cedar & Silver] there is a wonderful feeling of
soulful sensitivity demonstrated by this ever so multifaceted
virtuoso guitar player."—Dr. Frank Forte, Just
Jazz Guitar Magazine

Unleash the improvisational power of fingerboard shapes—utilized
by many guitar greats—with this book, which covers numerous
major, minor, and dominant chord-based patterns and superimpositions,
and a host of ideas and concepts to help you assemble them into
dynamic solos. 32 pages including four complete solos on common
song forms/progressions and a 28-track CD.

"I would highly recommend this book. The concepts presented
are easily digested and applied by any level of player and the
material is laid out in a clear, easy-to-follow manner." —Matthew
Warnock, Just Jazz Guitar Magazine

Jim's second solo CD features 17 original compositions for classical/fingerstyle
guitar, four of which are included in the Contemporary Anthology
of Solo Guitar Music for Five Fingers of the Right Hand ("Before
Six," "Leo's Blues," "Chuck's Waltz,"
and "Sumi Dance"). Highlights include the title track
(a 9:24 tribute to the music of India), "Lady Di," "Cirque
du Soul," and the first six 12 Simple Jazzy Studies. Sheet
music available (for sheet music not listed on this page, please
Contact Us).

"[Moonstone] is convincing evidence of Jim Ferguson's
place among the great fingerstyle jazz guitar artists. He fits
in the ranks of Gene Bertoncini, Charlie Byrd, Ken Hatfield, and
Lenny Breau. See if you hear it in Moonstone."—Just Jazz Guitar Magazine

Contemporary
Anthology
of Solo Guitar Music
for Five Fingers of the
Right Hand

12
Simple Jazzy Studies

Lady
Di

Cirque
du Soul

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This is the first compilation of guitar music specifically composed
for right-hand technique that includes the little finger. The
57 compositions are by a host of renowned guitarist/composers
(including Jim Ferguson). The pieces show the advantages of a
five-finger technique in the playing of scales, chords, arpeggios,
tremolos and harmonics, and the advantages of using the little
finger for speed, accuracy, strength and balance. All the compositions
were edited and fingered by Charles Postlewate, pioneer of the
five-finger technique. Standard notation only. In English and
Spanish. 156 pages.

"The studies are engaging and a rewarding challenge well
worth the time to play them."—Dr. Frank Forte, Just Jazz Guitar Magazine

Published by the prestigious Les Productions d'OZ, this vibrant
guitar solo wavers between Mixolydian and major tonalities, as
it moves toward a dynamic middle section that sequences back to
the main theme. Standard notation only; 4 pages.

"This little gem...would be ideal as a little filler in a concert and deserves to do well."—Chris Dumigan, Classical Guitar Magazine

Published by Les Productions d'OZ, this kinetic solo composition,
whose primary performance instruction is "Festive and a bit
off kilter," conjures a circus atmosphere, with its unique
balance of chaos and order, grace and suspense. Standard notation
only; 8 pages.

"Cirque du Soul is a quirky and humorous piece, with an occasional hint of
menace, which successfully evokes the strange world of the circus with its
slightly off-kilter view of the world...an interesting and attractive composition...which
I would imagine, could become many a student's favourite piece...."—Steve Marsh, Classical Guitar Magazine

"Well, here is a strange one indeed....I can see this having quite an impact."—Steve Marsh, Classical Guitar Magazine

Jim develops a single rhythmic motive in the context of both modal
and sequential harmonies throughout this highly organic solo composition.
Now available as a single publication, "Requiem" is also featured
in the anthology 25 Compositions (Les Productions d'OZ),
and was recorded by the marvelous Canadian classical guitarist
Marlène Lemay. Standard notation only; 4 pages.

"What a gorgeous piece—haunting and unforgettable."—JoAnn Falletta, conductor and guitarist

Comping Standards
For Jazz Guitar

Jazzotica

$19.99

$12.95

Jim—author of the highly acclaimed
All Blues For Jazz Guitar: Comping Styles, Chords & Grooves—again
helps you take your playing to the next level with Comping
Standards For Jazz Guitar. Using common jazz chord progressions,
the book walks you through three primary comping approaches: straight-four,
moving bass lines, and combo variants. In the process, you'll
learn numerous chord voicings, ways to organize them, and a wide
variety of dynamic rhythmic figures used in jazz. The material
comes to life on the accompanying 17-track CD. In both standard
notation and tablature; 32 pages.